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...While Faust made her way along frosty highways between New York City and Boston, the financial heavyweights, members of the Committee on University Resources (COUR), waited anxiously for their first encounter with Harvard’s president-elect...
...faculty members, a second of students—to advise the hunt for Harvard’s 28th leader. But while those advisory groups were highly publicized, a more influential body is playing a behind-the-scenes role in the direction of the search: the executive committee of the COUR...
Leaders of the Committee on University Resources (COUR), the group gathered that morning, say that the majority of alumni and donors were attached to the agenda put forward by former President Lawrence H. Summers—a plan that includes a major expansion into Allston, a focus on undergraduate life and teaching, and an emphasis on research in the life sciences. Members of the COUR’s executive committee who spoke to The Crimson about the meeting say leaders of the group want a president who is committed to Summers’ vision...
Investment strategist Byron R. Wien ’54, who has served as a member of the executive committee of the COUR, says that he was concerned by the fact that so many of names on the list were career academics. “One of the great things about Summers was that his experience was broader than just university life,” Wien says...
Grassley also questioned Golden on the journalist’s claim that Harvard gives admission preference to children of members of the Committee of University Resources (COUR), which is composed of Harvard’s largest donors—both alumni and non-alumni...